Inclusive education in the Netherlands: how funding arrangements and demographic trends relate to dropout and participation rates

International Journal of Inclusive Education

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 1137-1153

  Gubbels, Joyce ^a,b   Coppens, Karien M ^a   de Wolf, Inge ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Inspectorate of Education   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inclusive education; policy evaluation; students with special needs

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038616222     PISSN: 13603116     EISSN: 14645173     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2017.1416684     Document Type: Article

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